This is a serious question. Since Sheikh Mansour has taken power there is never any gossip on City players moving to likes of Barcelona or Real Madrid.

Every summer we have the Hazard and De Gea transfer stories to Real Madrid. We have even seen Neymar move from Barcelona to PSG when it appeared an impossible transfer.

I’ve always thought Aguero would be perfect for Real Madrid up front. David Silva would slot in easily at Barcelona.

Why is there no interest in any of the Man City players? You’re telling me if Real didn’t want De Bruyne, he would turn them down to stay at City?

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They may have talks behind closed doors but we will never know. I guess other clubs enquire all the time but the answer is no. Unless the players themselves show a desire to leave then there is no point go forward with any talks. Also there wages will be a problem a lot of the time.

Always wondered this. Players often complain about Manchester weather when linked with moves to United. I guess one part of it is city don't sell papers as much as United do because they're a smaller club. United transfer rumours sells. I think we'll start seeing players linked with moves away from city once they become more successful.

Always wondered this. Players often complain about Manchester weather when linked with moves to United. I guess one part of it is city don't sell papers as much as United do because they're a smaller club. United transfer rumours sells. I think we'll start seeing players linked with moves away from city once they become more successful.

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Who did actually complain about the Manchester weather? Fans usually make the assumption that it's part of the reason why players prefer Madrid or Paris or Barcelona but which players came out and said it?

I often see people say "but it's raining in Manchester, so he will probably go to Madrid or Barcelona, or the beautiful Paris", when we're interested in a player, but never when City's interested.
Do they have better weather in their part of town?

They’re also never linked with players from elite clubs. I imagine there is some truth in agreements they have. Clubs like Real and Barca know City could attract/disrupt their best players, so it’s probably a mutually beneficial position for all parties involved. Whether it’s in the spirit of the game is another issue.

Money is obviously a big part of it. It's not like the City players can be paid much more elsewhere or that the owners need the cash.

I think there's stubbornness from City to sell too so clubs don't even bother trying. City is part vanity project, part promotion of Abu Dhabi. There's a lot of pride involved and it would be seen as weak to lose a big player. PSG and Veratti got mentioned which I see as similar too.

The only thing that remained was players possibly wanting to leave to challenge for the Champions League in the past. Now they look like contenders there too for the time being.

Simple-City are succesful-when we were top year after year there was never talk of Scholes, Giggs, Rooney etc going-only 2 big names we lost in years were Beckham and Staam-after fallouts with SAF and Ronaldo-a promise from SAF to allow him to fulfill a dream.

Agreed; more or less. They've had a number of top players over recent years but I wouldn't describe any as exceptional.

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Can’t agree with that. Silva is an exceptional player and has been now for a number of years. Kompany at his best would have walked into any other PL side and Toure a few seasons back was an absolute beast of a player. Like him or loathe him Sterling has had an exceptional season and you can’t help but think he’d be courted by the Spaniards if he was at us or Chelsea.

Wasn't there quite a bit of speculation about Aguero going to Real Madrid?

Anyway, it's likely because getting those players would cost an astronomical amount of money. And it's not like they're unhappy there at the moment.

We get De Gea rumours all the time because we aren't giving him the success that such a quality keeper deserves. And while Hazard has won the title twice, in between those times Chelsea have had off seasons.

City have remained consistently good, give players good wages, don't need the money and the players seem like they can enjoy themselves.

The likes of Sliva, Aguero, Kompany who are all to different extents vital players for them, have been in this league since around 2011 and earlier.
The players they've signed around that backbone have all come from less financially enhanced clubs. They've had a solid strategy that's been honed for years and primed for the arrival of Pep. When you think about it is quite obvious they have some sort of agreement with Europe's elite, excluding PL clubs obviously. They've cherry picked Arsenal for years.

Can’t agree with that. Silva is an exceptional player and has been now for a number of years. Kompany at his best would have walked into any other PL side and Toure a few seasons back was an absolute beast of a player. Like him or loathe him Sterling has had an exceptional season and you can’t help but think he’d be courted by the Spaniards if he was at us or Chelsea.

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That's why there's no transfer news. They are both past it. Besides, wasn't Barca courting Toure the year he had that birthday cake meltdown?

Sterling, I can't see him moving to a foreign club and he's already at the best English club.

Can’t agree with that. Silva is an exceptional player and has been now for a number of years. Kompany at his best would have walked into any other PL side and Toure a few seasons back was an absolute beast of a player. Like him or loathe him Sterling has had an exceptional season and you can’t help but think he’d be courted by the Spaniards if he was at us or Chelsea.

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There was a case to be made for Kompany perhaps, but you are judging those players by Premier League standards and those standards weren't great in the previous 5 or 6 seasons. Although this season there has been a resurgence imo.

Who did actually complain about the Manchester weather? Fans usually make the assumption that it's part of the reason why players prefer Madrid or Paris or Barcelona but which players came out and said it?

When it comes to rumors, contrary to some want to believe on here, they simply did not have any player that had a season like Bale, Suarez, Hazard or Ronaldo did. I happen to think Agüero and Silva are two of the best players in PL history but I am not sure they were seen in that light outside of England, especially Silva. He's always been a bit underrated playing in a position and a style where he was overshadowed by the likes of Iniesta. Bottom line is they simply never had what you would call a Galactico sort of player.

When it comes to actual transfers, the fact is, if you can compete in terms of wages as well as in terms of trophies, you simply do not lose players you want to keep. There was this myth about Real just snapping their finger and getting whoever they want but the reality is that apart from Figo, Ronaldo and Neymar, no rich competitive club has lost players they wanted to keep. Liverpool and Spurs obviously not belonging to that category.

Simple answer £££, plus our original Mancini team is strangely loyal. Kompany, Aguero, Silva etc.. all seem to have a strange loyalty to us (commendable in this day and age.).
Barca wanted Aguero ahead of Suarez, City said no, Aguero was fine with it (which is weird considering his best friend is Messi).

I think in general we didn't have players good enough for Madrid or Barca except, the 3 mentioned above and now KDB. Of those only Kun was wanted by Barca and would get in the Madrid team. Silva would never have displaced Modric, Kroos, Iniesta or Xavi. Kompany was too injury prone and our other great Yaya was deemed surplus at Barca.

So for the last few years, Madrid have been stronger than us everywhere, Barca too. That combined with us not having to sell and being able to demand big money has scared clubs off.

I think the future of Sane could be a big one, I can imagine Real being all over him when Ronaldo hangs up his boots, maybe KDB too if he has another season like the last couple.

The answer is quite simple and multiple posters already posted them on here. If you are successful and play offensive football which star players enjoy more, that helps too, besides money and their owners' policy